Edinburgh Genomics is a world leading genomics institution delivering cutting-edge analyses to global collaborators and customers across academia, government, and industry. Its investment in the HiSeq X® technology has enabled the organization to lead the way for genomics in Scotland by providing a richer picture of diversity from evolution and ecology to improved diagnosis and disease management...

On June 3rd 2016, our Clinical Division hosted a visit by NHS Scotland and the Chief Scientist Office. This was an opportunity to see for themselves the Edinburgh Genomics high throughput HiSeq X sequencing facility, based within the Roslin Institute, and hear about our contribution to genomic medicine through human genome sequencing, which offers entirely new capabilities for genetic diagnosis...

Edinburgh scientists have decoded the genetic make-up of more than one thousand people as part of a long-term study to examine why some people's brains age better than others. The gene study involved researchers at the University of Edinburgh sequencing the DNA of 1,300 people as part of a project which has tracked the same individuals for decades. Read the full story .